Mar 25 WATCH: ‘It’s going to take time’ to build up immigration systems Trump dismantled, Biden says By Associated Press President Joe Biden says his administration is working on getting beds and other facilities up and running so children held in Border Patrol custody can be transferred. Continue reading
Mar 22 Photos of migrant detention highlight Biden’s border secrecy By Nomaan Merchant, Jonathan Lemire, Josh Boak, Associated Press The new images show immigrant teenagers sleeping on mats in crowded conditions, separated in groups by plastic partitions. Continue reading
Mar 19 WATCH: Pelosi says Biden has border situation under control By Will Weissert, Associated Press The Biden administration is responding to a wave of children crossing the southern border into the U.S. with some of the very tactics that evoked moral outrage from Democrats when former President Donald Trump embraced them. Continue reading
Mar 16 Homeland Security chief defends U.S. handling of border crossings By Ben Fox, Associated Press The Biden administration's head of Homeland Security is defending a policy of allowing unaccompanied children crossing the southwest border to remain in the U.S. Continue reading
Mar 12 Children packed into Border Patrol tent facility for days on end By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press President Joe Biden's administration is refusing to allow lawyers who inspect facilities where immigrant children are detained to enter a Border Patrol tent in Texas where agents are holding hundreds of youths. Continue reading
Mar 10 U.S. reports surge of children at southwest border, a challenge for Biden By Ben Fox, Associated Press The number of kids crossing by themselves has risen 60 percent to more than 9,400, forcing the government to look for new places to hold them amid the pandemic. Continue reading
Feb 24 U.S. tries to expedite release of migrant children amid surge By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press With its long-term facilities for immigrant children nearly full, the Biden administration is working to expedite the release of children to their relatives in the U.S. Continue reading
Nov 18 Watch 4:55 News Wrap: U.S. imposes new sanctions on Iran In our news wrap Wednesday, the U.S. imposed another round of sanctions on Iran, targeting the country’s intelligence minister and a charity that’s allegedly a regime slush fund. The move comes after a United Nations agency reported centrifuges at Iran’s… Continue watching
Nov 18 Judge orders U.S. to stop deporting children who cross border alone By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan issued a preliminary injunction sought by legal groups suing on behalf of children whom the government sought to expel before they could request protections. Continue reading
Jul 15 WATCH: House Homeland Security Committee holds hearing on migrant children health in CBP custody By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press Joseph Cuffari, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general, testified before the House Homeland Security Committee regarding the deaths of Jakelin Caal and Felipe Gomez Alonzo. Continue reading